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Subway service in New York City slashed by 40 percent.

Bus routes eliminated and service on the rest cut by a third. This is the sober scenario the Metropolitan Transportation Authority laid out on Wednesday as the agency faces a deadline to balance its budget while grappling link an enormous multibillion-dollar financial hole caused by the pandemic and little prospect of any immediate relief from Washington.

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Transit officials say their doomsday plan is a worst-case scenario made necessary because even with President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. The M. What might have taken a couple of years could now potentially take decades. In recent months, the M.

But with a looming Dec. The agency is expected to provide more specifics next month before adopting its budget. On Wednesday, the agency said subway weekend service would be hit hardest by cuts, with minute wait times between trains and some lines eliminated entirely. Service cuts for buses would affect up to a quarter of all bus routes — especially those with low ridership — though no bus riders would be more than half of a mile from another bus line or subway station.

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And on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro North commuter rails, service could be reduced on some lines while others eliminated entirely on weekdays and weekends. Transit officials also announced that they would slash 9, jobs from the transit work force, nearly half of which would come from the division that runs bus service.

Union leaders warned that such a drastic step would provoke a fiery response from their members, including a work slowdown that would worsen service even before https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/story-in-italian/summary-handout-programing-paradigm-a-style-of.php official cuts were made. It will lead to a disruption in service.]